Research Guides: Energy Management: Reading List

Net Positive by Paul Polman; Andrew Winston
Net Positive boldly argues that the companies of the future will profit by fixing the world's problems, not creating them. A guide for business leaders on how to take on humanity's greatest and most urgent challenges--climate change and inequality--and build a thriving business as a result. Critiques the most prevalent corporate myths: from the idea that business' only function is to maximize profits, to the naïve hope that Corporate Social Responsibility will save our species from disaster.
Sustainability Champion's Guidebook by Bob Willard
This practical, easy-to-follow guidebook helps sustainability champions at any level in a company lead a transformation to a smarter, more successful, and more sustainable enterprise. The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook outlines the transformational steps to take, tips and techniques to use, and derailers to avoid.
This book is an indispensable tool for sustainability champions who are transforming their companies into more sustainable enterprises.

Saving Us by Katharine Hayhoe
Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change.
Taking a Break from Saving the World
An examination of the culture of self-sacrifice that permeates the work done by volunteers and paid staff in the environmental conservation movement, and dissects how to manage our own time, energy, and commitment to our causes. Taking a Break from Saving the World takes a look at the impacts of eco-anxiety, over-work, and the associated stress surrounding the present and future state of the environment and offers practical and insightful suggestions on how to deal with it.

Doughnut Economics
Doughnut Economics offers a radically new compass for guiding global development, government policy, and corporate strategy, and sets new standards for what economic success looks like. Raworth handpicks the best emergent ideas--from ecological, behavioral, feminist, and institutional economics to complexity thinking and Earth-systems science--to address this question: How can we turn economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, into economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow?
Thinking in Systems
Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.

Braiding Sweetgrass
An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing.
Carry Tiger to Mountain
A book not only for activists in the field', but for layman activists who care about social issues. It's about how we can apply Taoist thought to various contemporary causes and offer strategies on such issues as how to listen better, how to cope in difficult situations and how to become better prepared and more effective in working for a cause. includes a verse by verse translation of the Tao te Ching's 81 'chapters'.'

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